A high school photo of Pia Farrenkopf, listed in county records as the homeowner of the Pontiac residence where a woman's mummified body was found. (Photo provided by relatives of Pia Farrenkopf)

Inconsistent voting records for the woman who is thought to have been recently found mummified in a Pontiac home after about six years could point to election fraud, said a newly-announced State Senate candidate.

Michigan Republican Rocky Raczkowski said he pulled voting lists for Pia Farrenkopf — the homeowner listed where the dead body was found — and doesn’t believe that records indicating Farrenkopf voted in the 2010 general election are the result of a clerical error, as was previously stated by Pontiac officials.

The Senate district Raczkowski is running for does not include Pontiac.

“This is modus operandi of many liberal groups who look for people who haven’t voted in the past and suddenly, poof, they vote in the general election,” said Raczkowski, who on Monday announced his candidacy for the Michigan Senate 13th District in the 2014 election. “It’s very difficult to have a clerical error on voting day ... you have two sets of eyes looking at your voter card when you vote in person.”

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Farrenkopf, who was originally from South Boston and had lost contact with family over the years,<URL destination="http://www.theoaklandpress.com/general-news/20140311/past-records-inconsistent-for-pontiac-homeowner-thought-to-be-found-mummified-woman">registered as a voter in Pontiac in 2006 and voted in the 2010 gubernatorial elections, Pontiac City Clerk Sherikia Hawkins has said.

</URL>Hawkins said that it was strange Farrenkopf didn’t vote in the 2008 presidential election, but that her 2010 vote could’ve been an administrative error. Hawkins, who could not be reached for comment Monday, was not the city clerk at the time of the 2010 election.

“Her name could’ve been highlighted by accident, since she was a registered voter and someone at the polling location may not have corrected the mistake,” Hawkins previously said.

Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard echoed those statements Monday, and said his investigators still believe that the 2010 vote was an error, not voter fraud.

But Raczkowski said that voter books or applications that could verify the mistake were destroyed in 2012, adding the records he reviewed showed that the people listed a line above and below Farrenkopf didn’t vote in 2010.

“With a name like Pia Farrenkopf, it’s hard to believe that it was a simple oversight,” said Raczkowski.

Identification is required, he said, but a voter could fill out a voting card with a name, address, date of birth and a signature. The card is received from one poll worker, then handed to another, he said, explaining how hard it would’ve been not to catch that type of error.

Oakland County Director of Elections Joe Rozell could not be reached for comment.

Her neighbors didn’t notice anything suspicious — Farrenkopf often traveled for work as a contractor through Chrysler Financial and kept to herself. A neighbor mowed her lawn and her bills were paid automatically though her bank account, which only recently ran dry.